[racket-dev] emscripten? (was: Re: Using clang to Build Racket on Mac OS X)

That's an interesting thought.

Racket currently uses GNU Lightning as its JIT, correct? What if
it used LLVM instead?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#Description

Of course this is much more work than just getting racket to
build with Clang, but I wonder what the implications of a
successful port could be.

33 minutes ago, John Clements wrote:
> 
> On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Will M. Farr wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Matthew!  It seems to build OK now.  
> > 
> 
> I missed the implication of this, the first time around.
> 
> If I'm reading this correctly, it means that clang can compile racket, which is awfully close to being able to run Racket using an LLVM model such as emscripten, and making it run in the browser.
> 
> In particular, I would expect the JIT to be totally broken, and that there would be a lot of painful parts related to linking to standard libraries, but the resulting program could actually do client-side compilation in a web browser, right?
> 
> John

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